Job 38:35
Do you send out lightnings, and they go || And say to you, Behold us?
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, and say unto thee, Here we are?
In Context
34Do you lift up your voice to the cloud, || And abundance of water covers you?
36Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the covered part?
Cross References
Exodus 9:29And Moses says to him, “At my going out of the city, I spread my palms to YHWH—the voices cease, and there is no more hail, so that you know that the earth [is] YHWH’s;
Numbers 11:1And the people are evil, as those sighing habitually in the ears of YHWH, and YHWH hears, and His anger burns, and the fire of YHWH burns among them, and consumes in the extremity of the camp.
1 Samuel 22:12and Saul says, “Now hear, son of Ahitub”; and he says, “Here I [am], my lord.”
2 Kings 1:14Behold, fire has come down from the heavens and consumes the two heads of the former fifties and their fifties; and now, let my soul be precious in your eyes.”
Job 37:3He directs it under the whole heavens, || And its light [is] over the skirts of the earth.
Isaiah 65:1“I have been inquired of by those who did not ask, || I have been found by those who did not seek Me, || I have said, Behold Me, behold Me, || To a nation not calling on My Name.
Matthew Henry on Job 38:26-41
God's Sovereign Dominion and Goodness. ( b. c. 1520.) 25 Who hath divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder; 26 To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness, wherein there is no man; 27 To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth? 28 Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew? 29 Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it? 30 The… Read the whole commentary →